APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
Supportive Parenting Moderates the Relation between Corporal Punishment and Child Prosocial Behavior in Girls
- David Patton
University of Maryland, College Park - Morgan Benner
University of Maryland, College Park - Jessica Stern
University of Maryland, College Park - Bonnie Brett
University of Maryland, College Park - Jacquelyn Gross
University of Maryland, College Park - Jude Cassidy
University of Maryland, College Park
Abstract
Corporal punishment typically relates to negative outcomes across various measures of mental health and relationship quality. This study extends prior research on the relation between corporal punishment and prosocial behaviors by examining child sex and supportive parenting as moderators, in a primarily low-income, urban, non-White sample.
Families/Parenting
